Autumn 2025 Newsletter

Welcome to our first quarterly newsletter.  Our followers and contributors mean the world to us and the animals we care for, so we think it’s important that we keep you up to date on the work we are doing, and how we are spending your donations.

Summer 2025

Our volunteers have been working hard over the summer and have taken a number of cats for treatment or for sterilisation. The Summer is not always good time of year for us to do our sterilisation work.  

We continue to feed and care for a number of colonies around the east of  the Island  -  Ipsos. Barbati, Dassia, Gouvia, Nissaki, Sinies, and San Stefanos.  Our volunteers also have a number of cats in their permanent care who receive ongoing medical treatment and love - these are normally the ones with the greatest needs who would not survive as a stray. 

Featured stories

Sami

Sami

Sami was living at the recycling colony in Gouvia.  Our volunteer, Nicola, found that he was ill – not eating and hiding, which was out of character for him. She took him to our vet in Gouvia who found he had a large wound on his side, as well as two barley corns embedded in his mouth - imagine the pain? Thankfully the wound was treated and stitched and the barley corns were removed. He is an old cat and is now living out his days with Nicola and her menagerie.

Ludo – it’s always better when we work together

Ludo

Ludo was found outside the entrance to the Lidl outside the airport in a really bad state and begging for help.  He was taken to our vet Evi in Corfu Town by Theda. He was given antiparasitic treatment, sterilised, wormed and had two rotten teeth taken out. He tested positive for FIV (a Feline Immune Virus). Because of his diagnosis, he will need antibiotics on and off for the rest of his life now, so he is now resident at Cemetery Cats.    

Hope for the future

This beautiful older girl near Nissaki, who is being fed by locals, notified our volunteers that her face was swollen, and she was pawing her mouth. She was struggling to eat. Our Agni vet in Gouvia, Vassilis, extracted two diseased teeth. She is feeling much better now and her appetite is back to normal.

Stripey

Stripey

Our volunteer Vicky was driving through Corfu Town on her way to the vet. A tiny kitten caught her eye, playing just at the side of the main road. It was a Friday evening, and the road was very congested. Vicky (as ever) had an empty carrier in her car. She pulled over, navigated the busy road, and scooped the kitten into her carrier. He is now living with her in Kassiopi but would surely have been killed. 

Margarite

Margarite

When Sean and Alison were holidaying on the island recently, they received an urgent call to help with a cat who had an injured paw near a beach café in Barbati.  They soon discovered that the cat was a hulking great ginger and white tom cat who had been called ‘Margarite’ and had ‘her own’ table in the bar.  Sure enough on investigation ‘she’ was limping and had clearly not been sterilized. With the waiter’s help, Margarite was taken to the vet. Her ‘plums’ were removed and ‘her’ paws were inspected but no injury was found. All 6 kg of ‘Margarite’ was returned by Georgia the next day to her/his table near the bar.

Over the Summer we sadly said goodbye to a few of our feline friends. They are always in our thoughts.

Monthly Donations and Outgoings

With thanks to our regular monthly donations, and some one off fundraisers we do, we have a regular monthly donation income of around £1,000.  We are so grateful for each and every penny that is contributed .

We have our regular monthly outgoings, which usually look something like this:

Vet bills: £700 - £1000

Food for colonies in and around Ipsos and Barbati: £450

Food for colonies in San Stefanos and Kassiopi: £625

Food for colonies in Kalami: £295

Total for food: £1370

Please continue to help us. Every penny donated goes towards feeding the cats in the colonies we support, and to support sterilisations and one off medical costs. 

November Fundraiser

November really is the best time of year for us to do steralisation work.  It is still warm enough for the cats who have had anaesthetic to be released. The cats are hungry as the visitors have gone home -  they want our food and will come into our traps. Our volunteers are working one job rather than 2 or 3, so they have a little more spare time to spend trapping, doing vet runs, and providing after care. Our females also are less likely to be pregnant or nursing this years kittens.

There really is so much work for us to do on our sterilisation work. We’d love to have the funds ready in November so we can work with our vets, and get as many cats to them as possible, before it gets too cold.  Please, if you are able to make any extra donation this month, or next, it will allow us to do this vital work. No amount is too small.  Just use the donate now button at the top of our website page to make either a one off donation, or a regular monthly one.  And remember to Gift Aid if you are a UK Taxpayer.

And Finally...

Our gorgeous cats have been posing their best looks and we have snapped away, to create our gorgeous 2026 AAWF Cats calendar.

The calendars are £10 or 12 EUR and every penny goes to the charity.

If you would like to order a calendar, please donate through our website, and in the notes box add 2026 Calendar purchase, with the name and address where you want it to be posted to.  Don’t forget to add post and packing costs of £2.50 for mainland UK .

We hope you have enjoyed reading our newsletter. We’d love any feedback or comments you have. Please tell your friends about the work we do. We cannot continue without your donations.

Angela and the team of volunteers at AAWF...

Our AAWF volunteer team:

Corfu – Georgia, Vicky, Theda, Chris, Nicola

UK – Tracy, Alison, Sean, Sue

Many thanks for all their time and commitment.